Seawater intrusion is also an issue, said Tareq Al-Ansari, a graduate trainee at Imperial College in London, in a presentation at the conference.

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In a hard-hitting judgement, Lord Hoffman said that Shahanna Islam, a graduate trainee schoolteacher from Karachi, faced threats from her husband and his political friends after becoming involved in a political dispute nine years ago.

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He first joined the BBC as a graduate news trainee in 1976 after completing a law degree at Leeds University.

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The Department of Education has reduced the number of post-graduate places for trainee teachers by 20%.

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Medlock, who has a PhD from Cambridge in applied natural language processing, and Reynolds, a fellow Cambridge graduate and former trainee with the British government, founded their company in August 2008 and launched their first keyboard app for Android in 2010.

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